Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-01-21

eign actress of base morals arrived intending
to make the tour OF the States but the re-
naming decency of Our cities rose up and
Cancelled the contracts, and drove her back
from our American stage, woman fit for
neither continent. In the name of Almighty
God l take these denominations by the throat
If you think these offepses are to go on for
ever, you donot know who the Lord is. God
viii not wait for the Day of Judgment All
these palaces of sin will become palaces of
| Righteousness. They will come into the pos
session of those strong for virtue and strong
for GNd. He shall divide the spoil with
the stT%ngn
China and Africa, the two richest portions
OF Jne earth by reason of metals and rare
woods, and inexhaustible productiveness, are
not yet divided up among the good because
they are not ready to be divided. Wait IN
til all the doors that Livingstone opened in
Africa shall be entered, and Bishop Taylor
with his band of self-supporting missionaries
have done their work, and the Ashantees and
Senegambia7s shall know Christ as well as
you know Him, and there shall be on the
banks of the Nile and the Niger q higher
civilization than is now to be found
on the banks of the Hudson, then
Christ will divide up that continent
among his friends. Wait until China, which
is half as large as all Europe, shall have de-
veloped her capacities for rice, and tea, and
sapphire, and topaz, and opal, and jasper
and porphyry, among precious stones; and
her rosewood, and ebony, and camphor, and
varnish trees among precious woods and
turned up from her depths half dozen Penn
sylvanias of coal and iron, and twenty Ne
vadaS of silver, and fifty CALIFORNIA; of gold
and her five hundred million of people shall
be evangelical; then the Lord will divide it
up among the good.
If my text be not a deception, but the
eternal truth, then the time is coming when
all the farms will be owned by Christian
farmers, and all the commerce controlled
by Christian merchants, and all the authority
held by Christian officials, and all the ships
commanded by Christian captains, aud all
the universities under the instruction Of
Christian professors Christian kings, Chris
tian presidents, Christian governors, Chris
tian mayors, Christian common council.
Yet, what securing outl what an upturn-
ing! what demolition! what resurrection
must precede this new apportionmentl
lido no. 5underrate the enemy. Julius Cesar
got his greatest victories by fully estimating
the vastness of his foes and prepared his men
for their greatest triumph by saving: "To~
morrow King Juba will be here with thirty
thousand horses, one hundred thousand skir-
mishers, and three hundred elephants
do not uuderrate the vast forces of Sin
and Death; but do you know who COM
mands usl Jehovah jireh.- And the re-
serve corps behind us are all the armies
of heaven and earth, with hurricane and
thunderbolt. The good work of the worlds
redemption is going on every minute. Never
SO many splendid men and glorious women
on the side of right as to-day. Never so many
good people as now. Diogenes has been
spoken of as wise man because he went
with lantern at monday, saying he was
looking for an honest man. If he had
turned his lantern toward himself he might
have discovered crank. Honest men by the
ten thousand! Through the International
Series of Sunday-school lessons the
next generation all through Chrstendom are
gong to be wiser than any generation since
the world stood. The kingdom is coming.
God can do it. No housewife with a chamois
cloth ever polished silver teaspoon with
more ease than Christ will rub off from this
world the tarnish, and brighten it up till it
glows like heaven, and then the glorious ap-
portlonment, for my text is reinforced by a
score Of other texts when it says of Christ:
HE shall divide the spoil with the strong ~
'But," you say, "that is pleasant to think
of for others, but before that time I shall
have passed upinto another existence, and l
shall get no advantage from that new ap-
portolnment." All, you have only driven me
to the other more exciting and transporting
consideration, and that is that Christ is go
ing to divide up heaven in the same way
There are old estates in the celestial world
that have been in the possession of
the inhabitants for thousands of years,
and they shall remain as they
are. There are old family mansions
In heaven filed with whole generations of
kindred, and they shall never be driven out
Many of the victors from earth have already
got their palaces, and they are pointed out
to those newly arrived. Soon after our get
ting there we will ask to be shown the Apos-
toIic residences and ask where does Paul
live, and John, and shown the patriarcha
residences, and shall say: where does
Abraham live, or Jacobs" and shown the
John Huss live, and Ridley" We will want
to see the boulevards where the chariots
of conquerors roll. I will want to seo
the garden where the princes walk. We
will want to see Music Row, where Handel,
and Haydn, and Mozart, and Charles Wes-
ley, and Thomas Hastings, and Bradbury
have their homes, out of their windows ever
and anon, rolling some snatch of an earthly
oratorio or hymn transported with the COM
poser We will want to see Revival Terrace,
where Whitefeld, and Nettleton, and Payson,
and Rowland Hill, and Charles Fnney, and
other giants of soul-reaping are resting from
their almost supernatural labors their doors
thronged with converts just arrived, coming
to rsport themselves
leaves for number, are the celestial homes
yet to be awarded, when Christ to you, and
millions of others, shall divide the spoil
What do you want there! You shall have it.
An orchard! There it is; twelve manner of
Eruits, and fruit every month. Do you want
river scenerys Take your choice on the
banks of the river, in longer wider deeper
roll than Danube, OF Amazon, or Mi sis.
sippi If mingled in one, and emptying into
the sea of glass, mingled with fire. DO
you want your kindred back again?
Go out and meet your father and mother
without the staff or the stoop, and your chill
dren in dance of immortal glee. Do you
want thronei Select it from the million
bur fnished elevations. Do you want crown!
Pick it out of that mountain of diamonded
COZ onets. Do you want your old church
| friends of earth around you'll Begin to hum
| az old revival tune and they will flock from
ali quarters to revel with yoa in sacred remi-
a.scence. All the earth for those who are
here on earth at the time of continental and
planetary distribution, and all the heavens
for those who are there
That heavenly distribution Of spois will be
a surprise to many. Here enters heaven the
soul OF man who took up great deal OF
| room in the church on earth but sacrificed
| little, and among his good works selfishnes!
was evident He just crowds through the
shining gate, but it's a very tight squeeze, SC
that the door-keeper has to pull hard to gel
him ID, and this man expects half of HEAVIER
for his share Of trophies, and he would like
a monopoly of all its splendor, and tC
purchase lots in the suburbs so that h,
| could get advantage of the growth o
the city Well, little by little grace o
heart, just enough to get him through, ant
to him is given a secondhand crown which
one of the saints wore ut the start, but ex
| changed for a brighter one as he went OF
from glory to glory. And he is put in an ole
house once occupied by an angel who wa.
rebellion.
Right after him comes a soul that makes
| great stir among the celestials, and thu